Pluto enters Capricorn 1/25/08 at 7:44 ppm PST. On 6/13/08 it returns to Sagittarius where it has been since 1995; then it re-enters Capricorn 11/26/08. It'll leave for good, for this round, 11/20/2024. That's a long haul. There's a lot to be hauled. I say let it go so that it can be hauled. The stuff wasn't you in the first place. All manner of judgment and power play will come to light in the next sixteen years. Power of any sort is the effort to affect change, but it is based in the software of Creation, what I call the mind, that always projects out some semi-conscious desire and installs a very unconscious shadow piece of something like fear. This mechanism makes the Wheel go round. The split keeps you real busy going in circles while thinking that you are getting some where in a Dream. The shadow bit subsequently hits you upside the head when you least expect it: the ignorance part of the bliss equation. Meanwhile you're supposed to be feeling grateful and all for the whole shebangie. I hope you are feeling tired of the Deal. Pluto in Capricorn offers the opportunity to see that power doesn't work in the way that you think. It just distracts you into the busy work of enchanted paths that only go in circles anyway. Realize your own being and clear your identification in all the rest. Let death happen in the years ahead. What happens in the Dream stays in the Dream. Let it burn away. Let it unwind. Let melt. Of course, I don't mean off your body. There'll be oh so many up to such slip sliding away............ falling off the Ledger....... Sorry to see ya go matey.... But let 'em go. Ya can't control what's coming down. What is coming down is all the unconscious projection of gradient, pyramid schemin', power trippin' external and internal colonialism and imperialism in heaven as it on Earth and laced throughout the Dream in every dimension. Let it go. Let it flow. And...... by the way, let the money come unto ye honey. It's time to put your divine burden down and be, see, play and unprey.

Remember that it's all going to die cuz it all does any which way you slice it. Being pro anything is a con. You can't get one end of the yin-yang machine. You aren't going to heaven or the light or what have you without dragging along all the polar opposites. Everybody is trying to get to some sort of heaven which is why the world is going to hell in a variety of ways. There is no such thing as balance or the middle way or neutral or such. It's an endlessly dynamic system, but the mind is always wont to split off pieces of bait to go chase. This is its inherent bafflement. You think that you are thinking this stuff when in fact the software thinks you. One of its favorite distractions is the spiritual pursuits wherein you are kept busy by trying to do the impossible/improbable, like love thy neighbor as thyself. Have you ever noticed how you love yourself? I don't think it'd help to project that crap out onto the neighbor, but that never stops the software from coming up with more goofy shit to do that is only having you dance unconsciously with your own shadow.

It's the software that is stupid, not you. Actually, it is brilliant software in the way that it can flummox you endlessly by this simple splitting mechanism. The ultimate fool's gold is to go to the ever popular unity/one thing. Gluing fractured bits of a Dream back together doesn't work either. Haven't we been there and done that? It doesn't work, but it sure does work ya? Tired of that dogged pony show? Pluto in Capricorn will reveal all the dumb enchantments of power, mortal and divine. It's the software that's stupid. Gods and saints and the lot are just as stuck in it as anything else. This will be revealed abundantly and gloriously. Even the Dalai Lama wants to quit. Claim your own consciousness and clear your own karma.

What I am saying is that you don't have a power problem, that is to say, a lack of power. Give it up. Power is a comforter about some sort of control. Everything, e v e r y t h i n g, is now going to go out of control. The more you try to control, the more you will suffer. The more you try to control by surrendering your control to a higher power, the more you will suffer. It's always like this, but now you can see.

Power has nothing to do with suffering ultimately. Suffering is the endless search for your self in the Dream. Just cuz you can turn water into wine (or wine into urine), doesn't mean that the suffering went away. It just changed. So what!?! The great grinder of the years ahead will present the damned/dammed dilemma so that you can see that no manner of change, glorious or ignominious, will make the suffering go away. Suffering is existential. Compassion hasn't and won't get rid of suffering. Compassion can feel oh so good but it does not clear suffering. Re-arranging the furniture does not keep the titanic ship of foolery from going down and around and around. If you want to keep chasing ideals and teachers and power and knowledge and love and faith and funny baloney or the highest of the highest high tone whatevers, go ahead, but keep your eyes open. All faith is blind, all belief is projection. The Truth never has set anyone free because they unconsciously keep believing that they are trapped. You were never trapped in the first place. This is how the Dream keeps you busy and distracted: doing things that you think projectively will work, but never do. We can see this now. The window opens every 26,000 years as we shift from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age. You can see the Game.

The End, the end of the projection, is always whirled. The spin distracts by the spiltease of one pole spinning with its other. It is what is endlessly manufractured by the bifurcatin' software of Creation. The purveyors of sin always purvey salvation. Going to heaven is a hell of a time for you and others. I say give up the power and manipulation, the projection and rat race roundy round. Realize your own being, sovereign beyond the Dream, not over it!

As Pluto departs Sagittarius (let's take time to appreciate that fine Sign for how it has been fricasseed and defragged), it also vacates one of the four corners of an approximate Mutable Grand Cross that we've had for many weeks whilst Mars has been retrograde. The feeling of being glumly trapped, foreclosure and bankruptcy for instance, has been dominant. Many have manifested extended ills in recent months; nothing new for winter, but then again it is if you ask the folks about their situations. Whatever was slammed/denied/transcended over......wellllll, it's slamming back. A lot of it is Boomer Wranging. That's a much longer subject for another day. You can see all the glorious excesses everywhere everyhow........ and how! Dough has been rolling down hill for many people. Money woes can be very life constipating. And so froth and so forth with vinegar and pissedness for all and peace for none. Intend directly for the manifestation of your own wealth through your own being. You'll clear out the refractive karmic crap that flies around in people's lives all the time and it's called: DRAMA. Undrama, undharma, unkarma, unblitzen....... desanta too. You be you. You can manifest what you want on your screen and you can't (and most importantly) don't need to figure that out. Rest from the unrest of the mind.

You can see the mad trains of projection coming off track and the pile ups that are occurring in slow emotion...... crash and burn will have more crash and more slow burn as resistance to facing the thick old layers results in smoldering resented demented and seemingly cemented mad projections of the good and the bad sort that will ricochet rattle and humiliate the highs and uplift the woes and all swirling in a desperate Bush/Bosch multidimensional meltdown of ancient and blazingly new....... no axis...... no bold no love and pure Aquarian metallic reaction of the strangest sorts rammed rampartisanly insanely in law and order supreme supreme supreme............... takedowndustupmayhemblurrrrrrrr from the inside out and you won't see it coming because you'll be trying to see where you are going rather than by choice..... by being....... by unjove.

Mercury goes retrograde in Aquarius 1/28/08 at 12:31 pm PST. It'll go direct 2/18. Mars has been retrograde for three months. It goes direct 1/31/08 at 2:33 pm PST in Gemini. What a lovely post Pluto shift bunch of noise. The Mars retrograde was quite difficult for people. Things noticeably did not work in their particulars; it was absurdist. This Mercury retrograde in Aquarius shall also be revelatory. Thinking, even intuiting, has major blind spots. You can see these now, that is you can see their effects. Even if you transcend normal thinking and leap to intuition, you'll see the effects of the projections involved. Each function does have its own axis to grind. Intuition is akin to realization through your own being, but it does still have higher mind agendi attached to it. All of this is sifting in the shifting. The mind always tells you to make a new shift. The higher mind does so as well, but often it encourages going into neutral for the big transmission. You don't need a new set of gears. You don't need to shift gears. You can see the gears and the shiftiness of the Game. Even then the mind will have you search the detritus to see if you can find some more info or power to get the thing to work for you. It can only have you work for it while you think it is working for you. You can't let it go cuz it clings right back on. Claim your own consciousness and you can cut the Dream loose. I can help remember that to you if you are interested.

Likely you are very tired and very scared and a great deal confused. Let it all melt. These are such disturbing times because in part we no longer stand on anything familiar in anyway. There have been so many shifts in the software, you can't really keep up. The software is trying to amend itself, but can only crash and burn, in a way of speaking. Likely this is what happens when you get a re-set ala the Mayan Calendar. The system crashes and gets re-booted. So PC. Will it resolve suffering? Nah. It's the same computer after re-booting. New applications come and go; so what. Will everybody generally believe that re-booting will work? Ya. That's true every day. We just get to see it over and over again every 26,000 years for a very little window of time. This time we are exceedingly fortunate to have Pluto enter Capricorn at the same time. The lid is blown. All the silliness can fly out and you can get on with your being while the Dream urps and burps.

Enjoy your wonderful self and undo your seated karmic belts.

Freely be,
Mark